Steve Bannon: Trump Was ‘Absolutely Correct’ To Blame Both Sides for Charlottesville Violence

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Updated Aug. 17, 2018 10:22PM ET / Published Aug. 17, 2018 10:08PM ET

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Steve Bannon, the former senior adviser to the president, said Thursday that Trump had been “absolutely correct” last year to say both sides were to blame for the violence at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. where neo-Nazi James Fields Jr. drove his car through a crowd of counter-protesters and killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer. “There are people on both sides, and that’s their first amendment right to debate that and to march on that and to protest that, and that’s what he was trying to say,” Bannon told MSNBC’s Ari Melber, while calling anti-fascists groups “just as violent as these KKK guys.” Looking ahead to this year's elections, Bannon predicted Republicans "would have a tough time holding the House” today.